die Butter
Meaning in English: butter
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Kannst du mir bitte die Butter geben?
Can you pass me the butter, please?
Der, die or das?
Butter is feminine: die Butter. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Butter?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Butter appears 8.3 times per million words — about once every 120,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.